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The success of SpaceX is phenomenal. Except for satellite transports the spaceflight was pretty much dead after the spaceshuttle program was shut down.NASA faced budget cuts in the past years and the other space agencies have just started to make their first baby steps (which is good).Often enough projects were set to be done in 10-20 years but were canceled due to lack of funding or changing political situation. Private companies will most certainly take a big role in future projects, especial…

I think the need highly depends on what is available.The conception of a space mission usually starts with the payload and then the engineers and scientists try to make their stuff to fit this payload limitation.With higher payloads more complex missions might be possible or even the combination of several missions (e.g. send a probe to jupiter or saturn and drop a mars rover while you use mars to accellerate the craft)Also if we really want to go to mars someday we need bigger payloads.Not onl…

Elon Musks Tesla in space.Dont Panic! on the display. youtube.com/watch?time_continue=187&v=aBr2kKAHN6M I wonder how stable that orbit is and which poor guy gets hit by a car on re-entry.

did you just call a tesla junk? well... that junk is going to mars... or the asteroid belt.... or... the delta quadrant

.... which equals a tesla.

So everything we deposit in outer space in future is not junk? Btw. maybe in 5 years we can tell how much junk such a tesla actually is. Space wont prevent it from aging. Micrometeorites will put some nice little holes into it, space dust will slowly remove the paint, the tires and all synthetic materials will lose gases. That probably even changes its course (maybe it really hits a poor guy somewhen). That Tesla might look very different when it gets close to earth next time.